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Birth:          ABT 1046 of Normandy, France
Death:          ABT 1111 La Charite-sur-Loir, Nievre, France
Burial:         St. Neots, France

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_I_de_Senlis,_Earl_of_Huntingdon-Northampton
Simon I de Senlis (or Senliz), 1st Earl of Northampton and 2nd Earl of Huntingdon jure 
uxoris (died between 1111 (probably 1111 as this is when his castle at Northampton 
passed to the crown) and 1113) was a Norman nobleman.

In 1098 he was captured during the Vexin campaign of King William Rufus and was 
subsequently ransomed. He witnessed King Henry I’s Charter of Liberties issued at his 
coronation in 1100. He attested royal charters in England from 1100–03, 1106–07, and 
1109–011. Sometime in the period, 1093–1100, he and his wife, Maud, founded the 
Priory of St Andrew's, Northampton. He witnessed a grant of King Henry I to Bath 
Abbey on 8 August 1111 at Bishop's Waltham, as the king was crossing to Normandy. 
Simon de Senlis subsequently went abroad and died at La Charité-sur-Loire, where he 
was buried in the new priory church. The date of his death is uncertain.

He built Northampton Castle, the town walls[1] and one of the three remaining round 
churches in England, The Holy Sepulchre, Northampton.

Family[edit]

Simon was the third son of Laudri de Senlis, sire of Chantilly and Ermenonville (in 
Picardy), and his spouse, Ermengarde.[2]

He married in or before 1090 Maud of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of 
Northumbria, Northampton, and Huntingdon, by Judith, daughter of Lambert, Count of 
Lens. They had two sons, Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton, and 
Waltheof of Melrose, and one daughter, Maud de Senlis, who married (1st) Robert Fitz 
Richard (of the De Clare family), of Little Dunmow, Essex.

Following Simon's death, his widow, Maud, married (2nd) around Christmas 1113, 
David I nicknamed the Saint, who became King of Scots in 1124. David was 
recognized as Earl of Huntingdon to the exclusion of his step-son, Simon; the earldom 
of Northampton reverted to the crown. Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon, the Queen 
of Scots, died in 1130/31.

In popular culture[edit]

He was featured in Alan Moore's book Voice of the Fire as the main character of the 
chapter "Limping to Jerusalem."[3]

Parents
DE ST. LIZ Laudri ()
____ Ermendgarde ()

Siblings
DE ST. LIZ (DE SENLIS) Simon (ABT 1046 - ABT 1111)

Marriage To DE HUNTINGDON Matilda (Maud) (ABT 1072 - 23 Apr 1131)
    m. 1089 

Notes

Parents
____ Waltheof II (ABT 1035 - 31 May 1076)
OF BOULOGNE (OF LENS) Judith (1054 - AFT 1086)

Children by DE HUNTINGDON Matilda (Maud) ABT 1072 - 23 Apr 1131
DE ST. LIZ Maud (ABT 1096 - 1140)
DE ST. LIZ (DE SENLIS) Simon II (ABT 1098 - Aug 1153)

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